Source, via Number eleven, of course, is “bust a shell up in your face, yo”. Or, as WikiNews puts it: U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fellow hunter on Saturday during a bird hunting trip at a south Texas ranch. The victim, 78 year-old Harry Whittington, is an Austin lawyer who was accompanying the Vice President on a… Read more →
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Karma, Earl-stylee
Remember last week when Myers, over at Pharyngula, posted about the news that a Bush admin flunky was telling NASA not to refer to the Big Bang, unless they stickered it with “only a theory, ID possible”? His post included this bit: Deutsch is 24 years old, having just graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism a few years ago.… Read more →
Is there **ANYBODY** surprised by this?
Seriously. Anybody? Lewis “Scooter” Libby testified that leak was authorized – Wikinews According to federal prosecutors, Lewis “Scooter” Libby Jr., the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, told a grand jury that his superiors authorized him to disclose to reporters information from the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate. Portions of the report included still-classified information on Iraqi weapons… Read more →
SF Authors Say Smart Things: Stross on S.O.U.
I think I’m at the point now where my digust and hatred of Bush make it literally impossible for me to be objective and rational about anything. Fortunately, there are many sensible people in the world who can apparently sit on the rage and still produce cogent analyses. For example, Charlie Stross posts about the science stuff in the State… Read more →
I do not endorse Wikipedia vandalism.
However, every statement in the first paragraph of this particular revision of the entry is true. Read more →
Last election post today
This post brought to you by Laphroaig and Lagavulin. Well, I’m going to get drunk now and really enjoy this funk. Tomorrow I’ll try to focus on the positive things. There actually are some, but they go hand-in-hand with even scarier scenarios. Read more →
Who We Just Made Our Prime Minister…
This post brought to you by bitter, bitter tears. “Mr. Speaker, the issue of war requires moral leadership. We believe the government should stand by our troops, our friends and our allies and do everything necessary to support them right through to victory.” – Stephen Harper, supporting the American invasion of Iraq, House of Commons, April 1, 2003. “In terms… Read more →
Damn
CBC just called it. Damn. I need liquor now. Read more →
Election Beer #3
This post brought to you by Fuller‘s London Porter. So, here’s my perception of the parties at play in this election. Google will bring you all kinds of other perspectives, but here you get the McLaren view ™. Liberals – The least dangerous party to be in power–they’re generally progressive on social policy (most often when Prime Ministers start to… Read more →
Election Beers #1 and #2
This post brought to you by McAuslan St. Ambroise oatmeal stout. OK, all the predictions before the polls started closing (and I can’t legally talk about election results yet, even though I can see some of them now for Atlantic ridings) were that the Conservatives would end the night with a minority government. Before I go into a little Canadian… Read more →
Heading out to vote.
I am on my way out the door to vote in the federal election. My plan for tonight is to sit around watching CBC, and getting really drunk. I hope I don’t end up needing the loving oblivion of the bottle, but if the results go the way I (and the pundits) think they will, there’s no way I’m going… Read more →
US government warns it’s running out of cash
OK, let’s just quickly check out the article: US government warns it’s running out of cash Treasury Secretary John Snow has warned that unless Congress raises the national debt limit, the US government will run out of cash to finance its daily work in two months. In a letter to Senate leaders Thursday, Snow said the statutory debt limit imposed… Read more →
Three completely unrelated citations
So we all know Bush broke the law, and illegally allowed the NSA to spy on American citizens. He says that “the practice is limited to occasions when an individual in the U.S. is communicating with someone overseas who has a known link to Al Qaeda, other terrorist groups or their supporters.” However, the LA Times has a different spin Read more →
Steinback captures it
I’ve written quite a bit about my shock, awe, and frank disgust at how the Bush administration (and frankly, the FBI under Clinton were bad at this too) get away with pushing what are essentially police state tactics by fear mongering. For me it always comes back to that Ben Franklin quote about people who are willing to trade liberty… Read more →
Two things that have cheered me today
1) Meditating on the amusing fact that the judge in the Pennsylvania “intelligent design” case was appointed by Bush. This puts a whole different spin on my notion that the “engage the base” machine would be going after the judge. 2) Reading all the reactions to the decision, summarized so well at The Questionable Authority. “The judge clearly has extrordinarily… Read more →
